You know, it has been said that a company will spend 10 years and 1 billion dollars to develop something that can later be bootlegged for $50 in a couple of days…
The outer limits of serviceability…? An important metric for the edge of practicality at the end of the throw-away era…? And one last desperate gasp when consumers have tapped out imparted by the ouroboros - these corporations and friends growing fat on their own consumption? Exciting frontiers replicating die with film; indy - is it not impossible to see, blinding by the brilliance of the maximum of density - one final nanometer reduced. But for what? Machines which cannot be repaired and …
Intro:
Shop class in college was like shop class in HS on steroids. My shop teacher, who goes by Doc, is a world class teacher. An intimidating hard ass who was known to enjoy steak outside on a paper plate with a razor sharp knife that he brought himself. The man was a hardened rough rider who took no bs.
Not only did Doc give me the bug to desire to learn how to fabricate literally everything (almost every day exploring some new technique, for example today it’s metallurgy and resulting m…
